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...Supreme Court puffed to the close of its term last week, legal observers noted that one of the longest regular sessions in history had also been one of the dullest. On the final day, for instance, the Justices ruled that defendants have the right to represent themselves without a lawyer if they wish and that border-patrol officers may not randomly stop cars away from border checkpoints to search for illegal aliens. If such cases did not add up to a banner year of decision making, court watchers were nonetheless fascinated by a potentially important change within the court...
...years ago?at least in the U.S., Canada, Western Europe and Japan ?this modern capitalism seemed to be on the verge of producing the permanently affluent society. Keynesian policies had kept recessions brief, mild and infrequent; the end of World War II opened the longest period of sustained growth ever. American Economist George Stigler announced that "economics is finally at the threshold of its Golden Age?nay, we already have one foot through the door...
...year begins this week for the U.S. economy-fiscal 1976-and, while the champagne corks are not yet popping, there is reason for at least muted jubilation. The longest, most brutal recession in the lifetime of most Americans is now over, and a recovery is beginning. It is likely to be fitful at first, and the daily headlines will oscillate between bleak and bullish. But shortly after Labor Day, when the usual summer slack period is over, production and sales should be rising fairly rapidly...
...longest-running, most politically divisive issue in recent British history was put to rest last week. By a landslide margin of more than 2 to 1, British voters decided to stay within the European Economic Community. Despite some fears that there might be a low turnout, leading to an inconclusive result, an estimated 65% of Britons went to the polls and 17,378,581 of them said yes to Europe. Even in Northern Ireland, where the Rev. Ian Paisley's Free Presbyterian Church had warned that "a vote for the Common Market is a vote for ecumenism, Rome, dictatorship...
...Which Harvard graduate school boasted the longest and least comprehensible power struggle...